Jessica Leeds, then a businesswoman at a paper company, was sitting next to Donald J. Trump on a flight to New York in the early 1980s. She told The Times that he lifted the armrest and began to grope her.CreditGeorge Etheredge for The New York Times

Separately, some Republicans who withdrew their support of Mr. Trump have changed their minds, fearing a backlash at the polls. The candidate will hold events in Florida and Ohio today.

• On the campaign trail, part II.

Hillary Clinton’s team says her opponent’s support for the release by WikiLeaks of her campaign chairman’s emails is evidence that Mr. Trump is in the pocket of Russia’s president, Vladimir V. Putin. American intelligence agencies have accused Russian agents of playing a role in the leaked emails.

Mr. Trump has used the emails in his latest political attacks against Mrs. Clinton, accusing her aides of improperly receiving inside information from the Obama administration. Mrs. Clinton will hold a fund-raising event in San Francisco today.

It is the first time the U.S. has become militarily involved in the war between a rebel group with loose ties to Iran, and the Yemeni government, which is backed by Saudi Arabia. The conflict has shown little signs of abating.

• Thai king is dead.

King Bhumibol Adulyadej, 88, held the throne for more than 70 years, establishing himself as a revered personification of Thai nationhood.

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Thais gathered on Wednesday outside the Bangkok hospital where the king died on Thursday.CreditAdam Dean for The New York Times

His heir apparent, Crown Prince Vajiralongkorn, is seen by many as a jet-setting playboy and is not held in the same regard as his father, raising questions about the monarchy’s future.

• Uber’s business model of classifying workers as independent contractors may have received a blow from New York State regulators, who ruled that two former drivers are eligible for unemployment payments.

• Female partners at law firms earn an average of $659,000 a year, compared with $949,000 for male partners, a new study finds. Who receives credit for bringing big-ticket cases to a firm is seen as a top factor in the size of the pay gap.

Noteworthy

• “Generation Adderall.”

“I was anxious, terrified I had done something irreversible to my brain, terrified that I was going to discover that I couldn’t write at all without my special pills.”

That’s the author Casey Schwartz, writing in this week’s Times Magazine. She described her initial embrace of the stimulant adderall in college, and her struggle to break free of the prescription drug’s hold in her 20s.

• In memoriam.

Jack Greenberg, 91, was the last surviving member of a notable civil rights legal team assembled by Thurgood Marshall, the first African-American Supreme Court justice.

Donn Fendler, 90, captivated the U.S. when he disappeared in Maine’s wilderness at age 12. His survival skills earned him an honor from President Franklin D. Roosevelt.

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Donn Fendler in 1939, showing the makeshift sleeping bag he used while lost in the woods in Maine.CreditAssociated Press

• Music men.

Peter Oxendale is a former longhaired glam rocker, but that’s not why he’s in the news. His role as a forensic musicologist has brought him the attention. His skills are often enlisted to help settle copyright disputes over songs that sound alike.

The rapper Lil Wayne has a new book, “Gone ’Til November,” a collection of his journals from the eight months in 2010 he spent in jail for gun possession. “I haven’t read it, and I don’t plan on reading it,” he told our music critic in a wide-ranging interview.

Back Story

You can search for Paddington Bear’s home at 32 Windsor Gardens in Notting Hill, London, but you won’t find it.

The literary character’s debut in “A Bear Called Paddington” was published on this day in 1958 and received immediate acclaim and an audience that has spread around the world.

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The British author Michael Bond with a Paddington Bear in London in 2008.CreditSang Tan/Associated Press

Michael Bond, the author whose book would sell out before the winter holidays, combined his parents’ address with his own for use in the book, a series of illustrated stories inspired by Mr. Bond’s last-minute holiday shopping in 1956. Toy store shelves were empty, except for a sad and lonely bear.

He bought it for his wife. A spark of inspiration followed. “After 10 days I found that I had a book on my hands,” Mr. Bond, who had been a BBC cameraman, recalled.

Mr. Bond provided the bear with a resonant back story: He found his own way to London from Peru, living on a lifeboat for a time and surviving on marmalade. He often appeared in rain slickers, rain boots and a red hat, carrying his trademark suitcase with a note that said, simply: “Please look after this bear. Thank you.”